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We may have to retrain generations of quolls

From
Lachlan Jones, Brisbane, Australia

I was interested to read about training quolls to avoid cane toads in order to rerelease them on the Australian mainland (5 May, p 10). I did wonder, however, what happens when the first generation to be released produce young.

Presumably they would need to be trained in turn? You also report Jonathan Webb saying that dingoes may need to be trained to avoid quolls. Doesn't that pose the same problem of having to repeat the process for each generation? Even if this were feasible, would it defeat the point of a reintroduction?